Reality is hard

So much mental illness, so much drug abuse, so much law enforcement has to deal with. When the mental hospitals were closed, law enforcement has been forced to become the keeper of everyone's special and most significant illness cases are on the streets. A mentally ill person without medicines or constant help can develop into a dangerous person.

If a family member or friends or even neighbors cannot handle mentally ill people themselves, then no one is to blame for desperate and delusional persons acts. Police can be called to scene of domestic violence, yet people stay together to fight again.

Sheriffs and families can talk about suspicious behavior, but you cannot arrest someone in this country for suspicious behavior. If someone you believe by their demeanor or dress, is watching a house from a street, you can call law enforcement, but until they do something, all they can do is tell them to move along. No one can predict what will set off dangerous mental illness episodes or no one wants to commit someone to an institution for fear of making a loved one live that kind of existence by that call and decision to make that call.

But reality is hard and loved ones need the truth to be helped and for change to happen. But the real truth is, an adult person has the right to independence and to be free, and can become horrible to others, even with all the help in the world. So many families deal with and help the mentally ill, every minute of everyday in this country. God bless them, and the price only they know they pay for caring.

Only when something has happened do people usually point fingers or blame or say "why didn't they?" Unless you are in someone else's shoes, please do not judge. A lifetime taking care of the mentally unstable takes a toll. No one is to blame for their mental illness and no one can predict the future.